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Better Pay Won’t Solve School-Structure Ills

The root problem is that education’s political, bureaucratic, and labor leaders have no incentive to serve anyone but themselves.

May 29, 2018 1:52 p.m. ET

Regarding Robert Maranto’s “Pay Teachers More—but Make Sure They Earn It” (op-ed, May 22): The root problem is that education’s political, bureaucratic and labor leaders have no incentive to serve anyone but themselves, much less the poor trapped in poor schools.

We can wait a further two or three generations to see if the monopoly somehow heals itself, or we can use the same money to pay for all children to go to schools competing to please parents and students with different types of education for different types of people....